Psalm 88:9
New International Version
my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

New Living Translation
My eyes are blinded by my tears. Each day I beg for your help, O LORD; I lift my hands to you for mercy.

English Standard Version
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

Berean Standard Bible
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

King James Bible
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

New King James Version
My eye wastes away because of affliction. LORD, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

New American Standard Bible
My eye grows dim from misery; I have called upon You every day, LORD; I have spread out my hands to You.

NASB 1995
My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O LORD; I have spread out my hands to You.

NASB 1977
My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon Thee every day, O LORD; I have spread out my hands to Thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; I have spread out my hands to You.

Amplified Bible
My eye grows dim with sorrow. O LORD, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

Christian Standard Bible
My eyes are worn out from crying. LORD, I cry out to you all day long; I spread out my hands to you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes are worn out from crying. LORD, I cry out to You all day long; I spread out my hands to You.

American Standard Version
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My eyes have melted from affliction and I called you, LORD JEHOVAH, every day, and have stretched forth my hands to you!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

Contemporary English Version
and I am almost blind because of my sorrow. Each day I lift my hands in prayer to you, LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

English Revised Version
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My eyes grow weak because of my suffering. All day long I call out to you, O LORD. I stretch out my hands to you [in prayer].

Good News Translation
my eyes are weak from suffering. LORD, every day I call to you and lift my hands to you in prayer.

International Standard Version
My eyes languish on account of my affliction; all day long I call out to you, LORD, I spread out my hands to you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; I have called upon Thee, O LORD, every day, I have spread forth my hands unto Thee.

Literal Standard Version
My eye has grieved because of affliction, | I called You, O YHWH, all the day, | I have spread out my hands to You.

Majority Standard Bible
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

New American Bible
my eyes grow dim from trouble. All day I call on you, LORD; I stretch out my hands to you.

NET Bible
My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O LORD, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

New Revised Standard Version
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

New Heart English Bible
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.

World English Bible
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Young's Literal Translation
Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape. 9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. 10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah…

Cross References
Job 11:13
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Psalm 6:7
My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Psalm 22:2
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Psalm 31:9
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

Psalm 38:10
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

Psalm 77:2
In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 86:3
Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.


Treasury of Scripture

My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

mine

Psalm 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

called

Psalm 88:1
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Psalm 55:17
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Psalm 86:3
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

stretched

Psalm 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Psalm 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Psalm 143:6
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

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Psalm 88
1. A prayer containing a grievous complaint.














(9) Mourneth.--Rather, fadeth, or pineth. So a Latin poet of the effects of weeping:--

"Maesta neque assiduo tabescere lumina fletu.

Cessarent, tristique imbre madere genae."

CATULLUS: xxviii. 55.

Verse 9. - Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction; or, "mine eye hath grown feeble" (comp. Job 17:7). Lord, I have called daily upon thee; or, "all day." I have stretched out my hands unto thee. The attitude of earnest prayer (comp. Job 11:13; Psalm 68:31, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My eyes
עֵינִ֥י (‘ê·nî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

grow dim
דָאֲבָ֗ה (ḏā·’ă·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1669: To become faint, languish

with
מִנִּ֫י (min·nî)
Preposition
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

grief.
עֹ֥נִי (‘ō·nî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6040: Affliction, poverty

I call to You
קְרָאתִ֣יךָ (qə·rā·ṯî·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

daily,
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

O LORD;
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

I spread out
שִׁטַּ֖חְתִּי (šiṭ·ṭaḥ·tî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7849: To spread, spread abroad

my hands
כַפָּֽי׃ (ḵap·pāy)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

to You.
אֵלֶ֣יךָ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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